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  • procps 3.3.12

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    The procps developers are happy to announce that version 3.3.12 of procps was released today. This version has a mixture of bug fixes and enhancements. This unfortunately means another API bump but we are hoping this will be fixed with the new library API coming soon. procps is developed on gitlab and the new version…

  • Displaying Linux Memory

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    Memory management is hard, but RAM management may be even harder. Most people know the vague overall concept of how memory usage is displayed within Linux. You have your total memory which is everything inside the box; then there is used and free which is what the system is or is not using respectively. Some…

  • procps 3.3.11

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    I have updated NEWS, bumped the API and tagged in git; procps version 3.3.11 is now released! This release we have fixed many bugs and made procps more robust for those odd corner cases. See the NEWS file for details.  The most significant new feature in this release is the support for LXC containers in both…

  • procps-ng 3.3.9

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    Procps version 3.3.9 was released today.  As there has been some API changes and fixes which means the library has changed again.  There is a fine balance between fixing or enhancing library functions and keeping the API stable, with the added problem it wasn’t a terribly good one to start with. Besides the API change,…

  • Careful with PIDs

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    Quick question, what is the lowest Process ID you will find?  Most people (myself included until recently) would be able to say that the lowest number is 1 for the init process.  Plenty of programs including ps and pstree have this assumption. This assumption bit me this week with Debian Bug 687829 where pstree on…